Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, lebanese baklava. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Save Time and Do Groceries Online Now. Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! Lebanese baklava is very special occasion dessert that we eat during the holidays, after breaking our fast for Ramadan or during big events with family. What makes this Lebanese baklava recipe unique from other types of baklava is the aromatic simple syrup flavored with rose water.

Lebanese Baklava is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Lebanese Baklava is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lebanese baklava using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lebanese Baklava:

1. Prepare 2 pcs Phyllo Pastry
2. Make ready 500 gr unsalted butted
3. Take 250 gr almond meal
4. Take 500 gr walnut (finely grounded with blender)
5. Make ready 1 cup sugar
6. Make ready 3 tbsp rose water
7. Make ready 3 tbsp orange blossom water
8. Make ready 100 gr pistachio (grounded)
9. Make ready Syrup/attar:
10. Take 3 cups sugar
11. Make ready 2 cups water
12. Prepare Lemon juice from 1/2 lemon
13. Take 2 tbsp orange blossom water
14. Take 2 tbsp rose water

Puff pastry is layered with melted butter. DIRECTIONS Unwrap and carefully unfold thawed phyllo dough; cover with plastic wrap or wax paper and a damp cloth to keep the dough from drying out. FOR THE FILLING – Grind the walnuts coarsely, mix with sugar and orange blossom water until well blended. Lebanese baklawa on the otherhand uses a simple syrup mixture scented with orange blossom and rose waters.

Instructions to make Lebanese Baklava:

1. First of all we make the syrup/attar. Boil the water, add sugar. Stir it occasionally until thickened. Once it thickened, turn off the fire add lemon juice, rose water, and orange blossom water, mix them well. Store in a bottle or container while cooled.
2. Preheat oven 160°C, meanwhile we prepare the baklava filling. Mix almond meal, ground walnut, sugar, rose water, and orange blossom water in a mixing bowl until it becomes like a dough. If it needs more water, add more rose water or orange blossom water gradually.
3. Melt the butter properly. Coat the baking tray with the butter.
4. Remove first phyllo pastry from the packaging, spread carefully on the butter in the baking tray.
5. Spread the walnut mixture on top of the phyllo pastry evenly. Make sure you press it to make it firm.
6. Open another package of phyllo pastry and layer it on top of the walnut filling and press it carefully.
7. Start cutting baklava in diamond shape with a sharp knife slowly. Make sure it cut really well to the bottom layer.
8. After all tray of baklava cut really well, pour butter gradually all over it.
9. Bake it until the top layer looks flaky. It takes around 10-20 mins, oven heat may vary. Don't let it over cook, it doesn't take long.
10. Remove from the over when the top layer looks golden and flaky.
11. Pour syrup/attar on top of it while it's still hot. Sprinkle ground pistachio. Wait until it cools down.
12. Baklava is ready to enjoy for dessert.

FOR THE FILLING – Grind the walnuts coarsely, mix with sugar and orange blossom water until well blended. Lebanese baklawa on the otherhand uses a simple syrup mixture scented with orange blossom and rose waters. Batlawa filling is also a little bit lighter than baklava, not as much filling overall and less ingredients. Batlawa is made simply with phyllo dough + butter + walnuts + sugar + orange blossom and rose waters. Lebanese baklawa is buttery, crisp layers of phyllo filled with nuts and drenched in flower water syrup.

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